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Is The Bible Reliable? Ebook
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CAN WE TRUST
THE BIBLE?
A BRIEF BACKGROUND
ON THE BIBLE
SO WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT THAT BIBLE ON YOUR
BOOKSHELF? WELL, IF YOU WERENT AWARE, THE FACT
IS, IT LITERALLY CONTAINS THE SPOKEN WORDS OF THE
CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE. YEAH, THATS RIGHT, THE
BIBLE IS NOT JUST ANY BOOK; IT IS AN INCREDIBLE
BOOK! NOT ONLY IS THE BIBLE THE WORD OF GOD IN
WRITTEN FORM, BUT IT IS ALSO THE BEST-SELLING,
MOST QUOTED, MOST PUBLISHED, MOST CIRCULATED,
MOST TRANSLATED, AND MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOK
IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND. DESPITE THESE
OUTSTANDING FACTS CONCERNING THE IMPACT THAT
THE BIBLE HAS HAD ON INDIVIDUALS AROUND THE
GLOBE, MANY PEOPLE TODAY ACTUALLY HAVE NO
CONCEPT OF WHAT THE BIBLE IS. BECAUSE OF THIS
LACK OF KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING THE BIBLE IN THE
WORLD AROUND US, THIS BOOKLET WILL COVER TWO
MAIN AREAS: WHAT IS THE BIBLE? AND, HOW WAS THE
BIBLE ACQUIRED?
Malachi was the last book of the Old Testament that was
written (around 430 B.C.). The Hebrew scholars assembled
and accepted the Old Testament canon as the inspired
Word of God by approximately 167 B.C. It was accepted
because it met all the criteria mentioned earlier.
DATE
WRITTEN
EARLIEST
COPY
APPROXIMATE TIME
SPAN BETWEEN
ORIGINAL AND COPY
NUMBER
OF COPIES
ACCURACY
OF COPIES
PLATO
427347
B.C.
900
A.D.
1200 YEARS
CASEAR
10044
B.C.
900
A.D.
1000 YEARS
10
ARISTOTLE
384322
A.D.
1100
A.D.
1400 YEARS
49
HOMER
(ILIAD)
900
B.C.
400
B.C.
500 YEARS
643
95%
5600
99.5%
c. 130
50100
NEW
A.D. f.
TESTAMENT A.D.
(1ST CENT.) (2ND CENT.)
Seed of Abraham
In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be
blessed, because you have obeyed My voice
(GENESIS 22:18).
The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah,
the son of David, the son of Abraham
(MATTHEW 1:1).
House of David
Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD,
When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch;
And He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice
and righteousness in the land
(JEREMIAH 23:5).
When He began His ministry, Jesus Himself was
about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, the
son of Joseph, the son of Eli . . . the son of Mattatha,
the son of Nathan, the son of David
(LUKE 3:23, 31).
The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind, You
are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek
(PSALM 110:4).
Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly
calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest
of our confession
(HEBREWS 3:1).
Christ did not take on himself the glory of becoming
a high priest. But God said to him, You are my Son;
today I have become your Father. And he says in
another place, You are a priest forever, in the order
of Melchizedek
(HEBREWS 5:56 NIV).
He Shall Be a Priest
Crucifixion
My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? . . . Be not
far from me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
Many bulls have surrounded me; strong bulls of Bashan
have encircled me. They open wide their mouth at me, as
a ravening and a roaring lion. I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is
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Now mark one of these silver dollars and stir the whole
mass thoroughly, all over the state. Blindfold a man and
tell him that he can travel as far as he wishes, but he must
pick up one silver dollar and say that this is the right one.
What chance would he have of getting the right one? Just
the same chance that the prophets would have had of
writing these eight prophecies and having them all come
true in any one man.
Muncaster, 101 Reasons You Can Believe (Harvest House Publishers, 2004), 8182.
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